Non-refillable bottle.



No. 686,224. Patented Nov. '5, 190i.

w. HILL.

NOIN4REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Jan. 8, 1901.

'(No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN HILL, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,224, dated November5, 1901.

Application filed January 8, 1901. Serial No. 42,523. (No model.)

To alt whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VARREN HILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, State of California,(with post-office address at 1304 East Ninth street, in said city,) haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a practical and. simpledevice which can be applied to or made a part of any bottle in order toprevent its being refilled after the original contents have beenwithdrawn. I have also aimed to construct a bottle which can be quicklyfilled and the contents thereof readily discharged; and my inventionconsists in certain features of novelty hereinafter described andclaimed.

Figure I is a side elevation of my improved bottle-neck. Fig. II is alongitudinal section taken on line II II, Fig. I. Fig. III is a sideelevation of the attachable portion of the neck. Fig. IV is alongitudinal section taken on line IV IV, Fig. III. Fig. V is a bottomView of the attachable neck. FigrVI is a transverse section taken online VI VI, Fig. II. Fig. VII is a transversesection taken on line VIIVII, Fig. II.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents my improved bottle as made intwo parts, the body of the bottle being blown in the usual manner, buthaving a short neck, as shown at 2. Within the neck 2 there is anannular socket 3, forming a valve-seat 4 at its lower end, 5representing a ball or round valve adapted to rest in said socket andclose against said valve-seat. The neck of thebottle is made in twoseparate parts, consisting of the fixed part 2 and an attachable part 6,the attachable part being designed to be secured to the fixed part whenthe bottle has been filled. The attachable section of the neck isprovided with a conical aperture 7 of sufficient length to allow theball-valve to oper- "the bottle is being emptied the ball-valve rolls inthe conical opening and the liquid contained within the bottle runsthrough the channels 9 under the ball and between the ribs 8, and thusout through the neck to the mouth of the bottle.

I preferably use in addition to the ball-valve 5 an auxiliary ball 10,adapted to operate within the conical aperture, the purpose of saidauxiliary ball being to prevent manipulation of the ball-valve in orderto refill the bottle. The auxiliary valve serves to force and hold theball-valve in position in case the bottle is tipped in attempting torefill the same and at the same time prevents the insertion of a wire orother medium around the ball-valve to lift the same up, and thus let theliquid pass.

The attachable portion of the neck of the bottle is provided with ashank 11, having ribs or threads 12 on its periphery, and the part 2 ofthe neck may bealso supplied with a like series of ribs or threads 13 onthe periphery of the socket 3 in order to hold the cement or other meansfor connecting the two parts of the neck after the balls have beenplaced in position within the conical aperture 7. After the cement isset the neck of the bottle becomes rigid, when it is impossible todetach the attachable portion without destroying the bottle.

I claim as my invention- The combination with a body of a bottlecontracted at its upper end a valve-seat formed above the contractedend, an annular rim proj ecting upwardly from the contracted portionabove the valve-seat and provided with interior screw-threads a portthrough the contracted portion leading to the valve-seat, of adetachable neck, a depending annular flange of greater diameter than thesaid valve-seat having exterior screw-threads adapted to enter theannular flange of the bottle and secured therein by means of therespective screw threads, a tapering or conical bore formed through saidneck and flange a series of corrugations or ribs formed in the said boreand a ball-valve adapted to seat itself on the valve-seat in thecontracted portion of the body of thebottle and a second ball of lessdiameter loosely secured in the conical bore above the ball-valve.

WARREN HILL.

Witnesses:

F. W. BLANCHARD, J. A. ROELOFSZ.

